@NikolajSchlej The same effort spent writing this layer could instead have been spent writing FOSS OS support for the actual metal.
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Replying to @RichFelker
@RichFelker vendors want their money, and that's about it. Use libreboot on compatible hardware if you want to be OSS from the ground up.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @NikolajSchlej
@NikolajSchlej It's not about money but control. Does libreboot eliminate all untrusted code between OS and hw? Coreboot doesn't.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker
@RichFelker@NikolajSchlej it's about the inertia of history and decades of proprietary HW eng culture: never attrib to malice...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @_jmeltzer
@_jmeltzer@NikolajSchlej That would be more believable if they didn't keep inventing _new_ layers of backdoors every time we almost fix 'em2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker
@RichFelker@_jmeltzer@NikolajSchlej don't underestimate vendor fears of un-unbrickable hardware either1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @damienmiller
@damienmiller@RichFelker@NikolajSchlej absolutely spot on... Survivability is a massive part of the associated concerns.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @_jmeltzer
@_jmeltzer@damienmiller@NikolajSchlej Unbrickability does not require backdooring the system after boot.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker
@RichFelker@_jmeltzer@damienmiller most people don't care about backdoors or anything security-related, and you can't sell it to them.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @NikolajSchlej
@NikolajSchlej@_jmeltzer@damienmiller This kind of condescending attitude towards non-technical users is not helpful or reasonable.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@NikolajSchlej @_jmeltzer @damienmiller No users, technical or not, want their computer to be remote-backdoored via eth/3g/etc.
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